Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Ayurveda Act (No. 31 of 1961)

TABLE OF PROVISIONSLong Title1. Short title and date of operation
2. A Department of Ayurveda to be established
3. Appointment of the Commissioner for Ayurveda and other officers
4. Delegation of the Commissioner's powers and duties
5. Minister's power to authorize any officer to exercise or perform any power or duty of a Deputy Commissioner or an Assistant Commissioner for Ayurveda
6. Commissioner to be subject to directions of Minister
7. Objects of the Department
8. Establishment and maintenance of ayurvedic hospitals, &c. by the Commissioner
9. Financial assistance by the Commissioner
10. Ayurvedic hospitals, pharmacies, dispensaries and stores to be registered
11. Constitution of the Ayurvedic Medical Council
12. Term of office of members of the Council,
13. Vacation of office by members of Council
14. Filling up of vacancies
15. The President and the Vice-President of the Council
16. Quorum
17. Regulation of procedure of the Council
18. The Council to be the authority responsible for the registration of ayurvedic practitioners, ayurvedic pharmacists and ayurvedic nurses and the regulation and control of their professional conduct
19. Registrar and other officers and servants of the Council
20. The Council to be a body corporate
21. Funds of the Council
22. The Ayurvedic College and Hospital Board
23. Term of office of members of the Board
24. Vacation of office by members of the Board
25. Filling up of vacancies
26. Chairman of the Board
27. Quorum
28. Regulation of proceedings of the Board-
29. Delegation of powers, functions or duties of the Board to committees
30. Powers of the Board
31. Registrar of the College
32. Expenditure of the Board
33. Constitution of the Ayurvedic Research Committee
34. Tenure of office of members of the Committee
35. Vacation of office by members of the Committee
36. Filling up of vacancies
37. Chairman of the Committee
38. Quorum
39. Regulation of proceedings of the Committee
40. Expenditure of the Committee
41. Duties of the Committee,
42. Definition of the expression " Body " for the purposes of this Part
43. A Body to be subject to general and special directions of the Minister
44. Proceedings of any Body
45. Remuneration for attendance at a meeting of a Body
46. Protection for action taken under this Act or on the direction of a Body
47. No writ to issue against person or property of a member of a Body
48. A Body deemed to be a scheduled institution within the meaning of the Bribery Act. Cap. 26
49. Power of a Body to make rules
50. Definition of certain expressions for the purposes of this Part
51. Registers
52. Applications for registration as ayurvedic practitioners
53. Applications for registration as ayurvedic pharmacists and ayurvedic nurses
54. Applications for registration by persons whose registration has been previously cancelled
55. Qualifications for registration as an ayurvedic practitioner
56. Qualifications for registration as an ayurvedic pharmacist or ayurvedic nurse
57. Grounds on which registration may be refused, cancelled or suspended,
58. Service of copies of orders made by the Council
59. Effect of orders made by the Council and duty of Registrar to give effect to such orders
60. Registration fee
61. Certificate of registration
62. Insertion of additional qualifications in the registers
63. Appeals
64. Use of the title "Vaidyacarya "
65. Meaning of " legally or duly qualified practitioner of ayurveda "
66. Meaning of "legally or duly qualified ayurvedic pharmacist"
67. Privileges of registered ayurvedic practitioners
68. Disabilities of unregistered ayurvedic practitioners
69. Pretence to be a registered ayurvedic practitioner, or practising for gain as an ayurvedic practitioner when not registered to be an offence
70. Registered ayurvedic pharmacists and registered ayurvedic nurses entitled to practise
71. Pretence to be a registered ayurvedic pharmacist or a registered ayurvedic nurse to be an offence
72. Practising for gain as an ayurvedic pharmacist or ayurvedic nurse when not registered to be an offence
73. Certain persons deemed to be registered as ayurvedic practitioners under this Act
74. Continuation in employment of members of the Department of Indigenous Medicine
75. Amendment of other written laws, &c., consequent on the change of designation of the Commissioner of Indigenous Medicine, and savings for contracts, &c
76. Change of name of the College of Indigenous Medicine and the Hospital of Indigenous Medicine and consequential provisions
77. Ayurvedic Code
78. Contravention of regulations an offence
79. Offences in relation to registered ayurvedic hospitals, pharmacies, dispensaries and stores
80. Punishment for offences under this Act
81. Duty of Registrar-General to notify the deaths of registered ayurvedic practitioners, registered ayurvedic pharmacists and registered ayurvedic nurses. Cap. 110
82. Regulations
83. Chapter 105 not to apply to the practice of medicine, surgery, pharmacy or nursing according to ayurveda
84. Repeal of section 40 of Chapter 105
85. Amendment of Chapter 216,
86. Modification of Chapter 218,
87. Repeal of Chapters 106 and 279
88. Transfer of property of Board of Indigenous Medicine to the Crown
89. Interpretation